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In an effort to raise public awareness of the dangers of distracted driving, the National Highway and Traffic Safety Administration has joined forces with the renown Ad Council to create three gripping television PSAs called “Stop the texts, stop the wrecks.”

The campaign specifically targets teens, which studies have shown are the group most likely to be affected by distracted driving. The idea is to contrast how texting outside of the car can go wrong to embarrassing results, but texting while driving will have tragic consequences.

The choice to make clear when texting is and isn’t appropriate is important. Unlike the self-evident risks of drinking and driving, texting is not an inherently dangerous activity. Though it’s clearly distracting, texting is legal and increasingly omnipresent.

But where texting doesn’t belong is in the drivers seat. It’s a point driven home by the hair-raising final moments of each ad, which show a distracted driver realizing he or she is about to crash into another car or unprotected pedestrians.

Here are two of the ads:

“The Average text takes your eyes off the road for nearly five seconds…”

“Not everyone should text and walk….No one should text and drive”

The ads are great, but I wonder whether education is really the problem.

A troubling study recently conducted by the AAA Foundation for Traffic reported that 95 percent of surveyed drivers recognize that texting behind the wheel is a serious threat. A full 88 percent feel the same way about cell phone use. Clearly, driver education and advocacy work to bring this danger to light has been wide-reaching.

But even though nearly everyone knows the life-threatening dangers associated with distracted driving, more than a third of those same respondents also reported that they had read or sent a text message while driving in the last month, and two-thirds said they’ve talked on their phone in that period.

Hopefully these new, powerful PSAs will help people connect the danger of distracted driving to their own behavior.

Learn more by visiting StopTextsStopWrecks.org

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It was already nine months since DePuy orthopedics back on his popular brand of metal on metal hip has implant models for younger patients of artificial hips. This week, the Sacramento Bee reported that hip implant recall actions continues to claim against the Johnson and Johnson stack subsidiary of patients pain during the hip operations. This is not surprising, as hundreds of patients have reported complications in the form of hip pain here in California and metal particles leaking into their bloodstream.

Take a look at the bee useful infographic about the anatomy of the metal on metal hip implants, which helps to explain why so many revision surgeries were necessary in the past few years. Primarily the metal device should have a longer life for patients under 50. But in reality the device quickly has downgraded in a surprising number of patients and has even sent chromium and cobalt in the bloodstream, a problem that could lead to hearing loss and even heart disease. This is a serious problem that requires immediate medical attention.

This revision surgery hip implant is regrettable when viewed from a distance. But the individual stories are even more distressing. Take Michael Stieler, such as a Sonora man in his early 60's, work for Habitat for humanity. 2007 He was a DePuy hip surgery in after chronic hip pain. Click got worse Affairs after the operation, he says as pain crutches was so bad that he had to work around, and he could even the hip implant listen to in and out of place. It was 3 months since the revision surgery, but Stieler will only now without crutches. "I am a very active person, and this is hard for me," he told the Sacramento Bee.

There are many stories like this, but orthopedic surgeons say patients DePuy should care hip implant, only if they experience pain or other unusual symptoms. "The vast majority of the implants will do well", says Dr. Thomas Blumenfeld of Sutter of Orthopedic Institute in Sacramento. Dr. Joshua Jacobs, Chairman of orthopedic surgery at Chicago's Rush University Medical Center saying that patients "should ignore not hip pain." It could be caused by bursitis or referred pain of the spine. "Or it could be an adverse local tissue response."

As DePuy actions continue on stack, sure hip implant, to ignore any medical symptoms that could be a result of a failed hip surgery.

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Target zero is talked about a program that I have about above, which the Washington State Patrol has decided to try and to rid the streets of drunken drivers. The target zero has saved team more than 60 lives since the team was created in the last year, and its aim is to have 0 (zero) drunk driving accidents by the year 2030. As work on the development of a law personal injury Seattle Washington State auto accident lawyer I can company which support the efforts of the Washington State Patrol know the devastating effects of the personal injury or wrongful death of a beloved on a family and I.

Last weekend target zero teams started to visit bars after arrest drunken drivers, before drinking it. It is common practice a drunk driver questions, where they drank last before getting into a car and in the past these statistics to police led to sitting outside certain bars try and catch drunk before they behind the wheel. Zero leads team in place, this information to the concerned with the target always visit from law enforcement authorities and commanders bar. To the management in establishing, it discussing reminded Washington State alcohol laws police officers. They help customers find a particular driver or one other alternative way home, by them, the a heads up, that they are out on patrol and a DUI costs much more than a cab ride home.

Drunk drivers kill more than 200 people in Washington State alone each year; I hope that with the implementation of target zero teams we will dramatically reduce this number. Their efforts the team made this weekend more than 30 members and more than 250 contacts on Saturday in the Pierce County alone; just think of all the lives saved by this additional effort by the Washington State Patrol.

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In the course of which has two serious bus accidents in New York City sting aimed rogue bus company started. New York two suffered fatal tour bus crashes in a matter of just a few days, of which tragically led fifteen deaths.

The investigation follows revelations that the driver of the bus accident caused false names used the 15 deaths, had a commercial driver's license, despite the fact that the bus driver's license should have been to get. This serious accident together with similar bus has accidents in other States an outcry for increased regulation and supervision of private bus companies that lax are subject to supervision and regulation. The current crackdown NY is probably an indication of future actions in many large u-Bahnen like Atlanta authorities.

If you have been seriously injured or a mistress wrongful death in Atlanta, Georgia bus accident with a car, truck or SUV, or a bus accident has suffered everywhere in Georgia you can claim for compensation for your injuries. The experienced bus Montlick and Associates, attorneys at law, lawyers have accident already, Georgia residents injured in car accidents including serious bus accidents for more than 27 years. Serious bus accident injuries, such as other mass transportation accidents, can require careful examination and analysis of security and maintenance records, and a thorough knowledge of the rules and safety standards that apply to bus transportation companies. Our knowledgeable and experienced attorneys will diligently pursue your best interests so that we can get the best possible result in your case. If you in a bus accident with a private company or in a mass public transport accident was injured, are Montlick and staff carefully represented your interests and fight for your rights, as part of our ongoing aim as the top Atlanta lawyers in all Georgia be considered assault.

The authorities of 14 tour buses as part of their sting operation pulled and drawn over each bus off the road for injuries, the bus driver or bus ordered security. There were 9 reported "major questions", the driver, including error driver records current to keep. The log drivers provide a record of the amount of hours that a bus driver on the road, as also to rest and sleep pattern track is to prevent fatigue-based bus accidents. On nine main topics, the driver, the train KE showed also 40 smaller security violations with security with an other 10 major injuries. This sweep shows widespread disregard for safety and maintenance in the context of private bus companies. The authorities were not detailed the upcoming execution reveals and sweeping security because the sting operation in progress.

If a bus involved in a collision with a car, truck, SUV or pedestrians, the sheer size of the bus can terrible accidents. A bus rollover accident causing massive carnage and high fatality rates. By law the bus companies to a high standard of care as "Common Carrier" in general are held, as passengers literally their security in the hands of bus companies and their bus driver space. The results of this recent sweep shows serious security issues with private bus charters and tour buses, which often ignore to protect this enhanced due diligence, patrons, and others on the road. Private tour buses and bus Charter are common in Atlanta, so that this accident could easily have happened in our own city. Hopefully, authorities will follow Atlanta and take this recent tragedy as a wake-up call on an issue that has been ignored far too long.

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